All a man can betray is his conscience.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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